Modern Humans
Further information: Recent African origin of modern humansMolecular biologists starting with Wesley Brown on mtDNA and Allan Wilson on mtDNA have produced observations relevant to human evolution.
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“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
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Its head o’ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife—”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
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